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doumbec

doumbec is the alternative form of dumbek.

Meaning of dumbek

Noun

dumbek (plural dumbeks or dumbek)

  1. A Middle Eastern goblet drum.
    • The Middle Eastern jar shaped drum generally referred to as the dumbek is gaining enormous popularity among today's hand percussionists.2000, John Marshall, Hand Drums for Beginners: An Easy Beginning Method, →ISBN, page 33

Forms of doumbec

pluraldoumbecs

Questions about doumbec

What is doumbec the alternative form of?
Doumbec is the alternative form of dumbek.

Words near doumbec in the dictionary

  1. doum fruits
  2. doum palm
  3. doum palms
  4. douma
  5. doumas
  6. doumbec
  7. doumbecs
  8. doumbek
  9. doumbeks
  10. Doumbia
  11. Doumbias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doumbec (page history and authors); dumbek (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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